nonconceptual

Examples

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• In art, nonconceptual expressions often capture feelings that do not rely on specific themes or narratives.

• Some people believe that certain emotions can be understood through a nonconceptual lens, without the need for defined ideas.

• Realism is metaphysically a doctrine stating the existence, or possible existence, of a nonconceptual domain.

  Academic text (1995)

• Conversely, the claims characterizing various nonrealisms deny the existence of nonconceptual spheres.

  Academic text (1995)

• Thus, besides the nonconceptual experience of God as horizon, there is very extensive treatment of the affective experience of God in the "consolation without previous cause," which constitutes the rest of the book.

  Academic text (1992)

• At a philosophical level, the contrast is between those who, in one way or another, say that spiritual inquiry can causally produce a nonconceptual awareness and those claiming that spiritual inquiry can never be an agent for the emergence of spiritual insight.

  Academic text (1994)

• Wouldn't this be equivalent to a conceptual understanding of voidness, and that the real difference in terms of our Buddhist understanding concerns the nonconceptual cognition of it?

  Blog text (6)

• Scott Aikin claims that Dewey relied on noninferential and nonconceptual content or givens as perceptual inputs for cognitive experience.

  Academic text (2016)

• According to Kant, there is a methodological distinction between practical and theoretical philosophy because only the former can confirm its concepts for cognition without an appeal to an independent, nonconceptual domain like sensibility.

  Academic text (2017)

• Or in Chakrasamvara, Heruka, the voidness of the aggregates, then the voidness of the "me" that's imputed on the aggregates, then the nonconceptual level of that, then the clear light level of that.

  Blog text (6)

Synonyms

N

nondiscursive

vsnonconceptual

• Literature

9.9

Made clear by feelings or senses instead of words

relies on abstract thought rather than sensory or intuitive modes

Antonyms

C

conceptual

45 6.5

It is about ideas and how people form them

How Conceptual

to abstract

6 7.3

theoretical

133 6.3

conceptual

45 6.5

intuitive

34 5.5

concrete

206 3.9

nonconceptual

• Specialized

8.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology